On 3/15/06, Nicolas Fleury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think we all agree on this list that there's no point using a > staticmethod for that use case. My suggestion was for some > comp.lang.python people, a lot coming from other languages. Their > reflex would be much more to define a staticmethod. This issue has been > pointed a lot of times on comp.lang.python.
There's no need to change Python so that people coming from other languages won't make silly mistakes, is there? BTW I question the claimed reflex -- assuming by "other languages" you mean Java or C++ (the only languages I know that *have* static methods) -- since those languages don't have the ability to call methods (static or otherwise) at class definition time. So perhaps you need to dig deeper to find out *why* this is a recurring issue. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
